Crime is naught but misdirected energy. - Emma Goldman
Civilization has been a continuous struggle of the individual or of groups of individuals against the State and even against "society," that is, against the majority subdued and hypnotized by the State and State worship. - Emma Goldman
Give us what belongs to us in peace, and if you don't give it to us in peace, we will take it by force. - Emma Goldman
To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock. - Emma Goldman
Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another. - Emma Goldman
Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open. - Emma Goldman
The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society. - Emma Goldman
I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. - Emma Goldman
So long as tyranny exists, in whatever form, man's deepest aspiration must resist it as inevitably as man must breathe. - Emma Goldman
When we can't dream any longer we die. - Emma Goldman
I do not believe in God, because I believe in man. Whatever his mistakes, man has for thousands of years been working to undo the botched job your god has made. - Emma Goldman
If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution. - Emma Goldman
People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take. - Emma Goldman
The triumph of the philosophy of Atheism is to free man from the nightmare of gods; it means the dissolution of the phantoms of the beyond. - Emma Goldman